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A Glass Forest Grows in TriBeCa

Jeff Zimmerman, a Brooklyn artist who works in glass, spent more than six months creating the all-encompassing installation of bronze-and-glass vines currently on display at R Gallery in TriBeCa.

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Robert Wright for The New York Times

“The whole back of the gallery is a forest of vines you can walk through,” said Zesty Meyers, an owner of the gallery. “It’s like being in an underworld.”

Mr. Zimmerman, 43, admitted, “There is a lot of glass.” But that’s not why it took so long to make. Each piece, he said, “is hand-blown, and it’s a long process with all handmade materials. That’s an important part of the idea: I’m not having somebody else make this, it’s not plastic or mass-produced.”